The Best Minute: Hope, living a fulfilled life, and priorities
2 QUOTES FROM OTHERS
I. Helen Fagin, Holocaust survivor, on the power of hope:
“There are times when dreams sustain us more than facts.”
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II. Anna Quindlen on living a fulfilled life:
“There are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life. Your particular life. Your entire life. Not just your life at a desk, or your life on the bus, or in the car, or at the computer. Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.
People don’t talk about the soul very much anymore. It’s so much easier to write a résumé than to craft a spirit. But a résumé is cold comfort on a winter night, or when you’re sad, or broke, or lonely, or when you’ve gotten back the chest X-ray and it doesn’t look so good, or when the doctor writes “prognosis, poor.”
… You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.”
2 IDEAS FROM ME
I. Your first attempt won’t be as good as you thought. Your one-hundredth attempt will be better than you think if you don’t give up.
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II. Priorities are acted upon desires. If your actions are different than your desires then you have wishful thinking but not the right priorities.
1 INTERESTING FACT
In 1941, more than three million cars were manufactured in the United States. Only 139 more were made during the time the United States took part in World War II.
Instead, Chrysler made fuselages. General Motors made airplane engines, guns, trucks, and tanks. Packard made Rolls-Royce engines for the British air force.
Source: PBS
1 QUESTION TO LEAVE YOU WITH
What is something great about your life that you rarely appreciate as much as you should?
